Method of attaching addresses or labels to wrappers



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J. D. ROBERTSON.

METHOD OF AT'IAOHING ADDRESSES OR LABELS T0 WRAPPERS,

BNVELOPES, OR PUBLICATIONS.

No. 430,787; Patented June 24, 1890.

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.IOIIN DONALD ROBERTSON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

METHOD OF ATTACHING ADDRESSES OR LABELS TO WRAPPERS, ENVELOPES, OR PUBLICATIONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,787, dated June 24, 1890.

Application filed November 4, 1889. Serial No, 32 ,218. (N0 specimen -l To all whom it may concern.-

3c it known that I, JOHN DONALD ROBERT- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a cer tain new and useful Improvement in the Method of Attaching Addresses or Labels to 'Wrappers, Envelopes, or Publications; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

lleretofore printed addresses or labels have been attached to wrappers, envelopes, or pub lications by means of what is known as a mailing-machine, several forms of which are at present in use in newspaper-oilices. Including time of preparing strips and getting machine in working order, also stoppages caused by cutter getting clogged by paste or otherwise, the average number of addresses attached by one operator, according to inypersonal experience during the past nine years, does not exceed one thousand per hour.

The object of my invention is to lessen the labor and expense of addressing by gaining a speed in the attaching of addresses or labels at least ten times greater than that possible by the present method.

To carry my invention into effect, in the case of wrappers I first get a supply of wrapping-paper of suitable quality of the largest size made. I then cut it across its greatest flat width to the length of the required wrappers. I then arrange the paper thus cut with a distance between each edge (which, when out, will form the end of the wrapper) to correspond exactly with the blank space between each printed address orlabel. The addresses or labels having been printed on sheets and then cut into strips in the same manner as at present in use for mailing-machines, I arrange, as above described, as many sheets of wrapping-paper as there are addresses or labels on each strip. I then paste the strips one after another across the paper arranged as above described, care being required to have the blank space between each address or label in a line with the edge of each sheet, and also to paste the strips at a distance from each other to correspond with the width of wrappers required.

I then allow the paste to dry, which can be hastened by the use of a hot iron or other artificial means. After the paste is dry and the strips adhere firmly to the wrapping-paper I tear the sheets apart, this being more easily accomplished by having had the blank spaces between the ad dresses perforated, the perforation being done before the sheets of addresses were cut into strips. After the sheets of wrapping paper have been separated I jog them up and cut them into'the required width.

In the case of envelopes or publications more blank space is required to be left between each address orlabel, and the arrange ment prior to pasting on the strips is just the same as for wrappers, excepting that the envelopes or publications have to be arranged singly and torn apart singly.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention, showing four strips of addresslabels in position on sheets of wrapping-pa per. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view showing a single strip of address-labels in position on a series of wrappers. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a single wrapper having its address-label attached.

Fig. 1 represents five sheets of Wrappingpaper (marked A) with four strips of addresslabels (marked B) pasted on the wrappingpaper before the strips have been torn apart. Each sheet of wrapping-paper is arranged with the edge (which, when out, will form the end of the wrapper) in a line with the blank space perforated (marked D) between each address-label,(marked C.) The perpendicular dotted lines between the strips mark the place where the wrappers are cut in required width afterthe addresses have been torn apart and the sheets of wrapping-paper jogged up on top of each other. In actual practice each strip may contain one hundred add resslabels, and the wrapping-paper maybe wide enough for ten wrappers, giving one thousand addresses, and if the wrapping-paper be cut exactly twice the length of the wrappers required, then, after one side is pasted, by turning the sheets over the other side can also be pasted, giving another thousand addresses.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a single strip of five address-labels pasted on five wrappers.

Fig. 3 is a view of a single wrapper ready for use with addresslabel attached.

Similarletters referto similar parts throughpasting said strip upon the articles, one ad- IO out the several views. dresslabel being applied to each article, and Having fully described myinvention,whatl in then separating the addressed articles, claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, whereby the labels composing the strip are is V torn apart, substantially as set forth.

The method of addressing Wrappers, envel- JOHN DONALD ROBERTSON. opes, or publications, which consists in ar- Witnesses: ranging the articles to correspond to the po- A. P. NILEs,

sition of the address-labels in a strip thereof, ANDREW L. VALLEAU. 

